Paralympic Games

The redoubtable Tatyana McFadden has done it again. The young woman for whom nothing seems impossible joined the group of athletes who have won medals in winter and summer Paralympic competition when she took silver in Wednesday’s sit ski sprint at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia. “I can’t even believe it. My main goal was just to come in and make it to the final,” McFadden said in a release from the U.S. Paralympic team. “I am just so happy and so proud.” McFadden, 24, who was graduated in December from the University of Illinois, finished one-tenth of a second behind winner Mariann Marthinsen of Norway in the 1-kilometer (.62-mile)...

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